No |
Date |
Description |
Attendance |
1 |
Dec 08 - Jan 09
|
Newsletter
http://www.icc-languages.eu/newsletters.php
http://www.icc-languages.eu/projects.php
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Partner P5 ICC
Reached 4000 teachers, teacher trainers, managers,
education policy makers and publishers.
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2 |
6 Feb 2009
|
Meeting Point @ LearnTec 2009
Simulcast
Local venue: conference room 5th floor
Virtual venue: Elluminate
Program in English with guest speakers at a distance. InWent, Jay Cross, Nancy White.
Announcement on the LEARNTEC homepage
Program on the LEARNTEC homepage
Program in pdf format in English, German, Spanish
Program on the LANCELOT School homepage
Program on the European Telecoaches Institut homepage
Program on InWent homepage
|
Partner P6 LANC
Heike Philp
Conference participants at the LearnTec 2009 exhibition and e-learning conference in Karlsruhe, Germany
Reaches e-Learning experts, distance learning, learning platforms
approx. 20 local participants and approx. 30 participants at a distance
|
3 |
|
Live und Online Teletutoren auf der LEARNTEC
Program only in German
Local venue: dm-Arena LEARNTEC Forum
Announcement on the LEARNTEC homepage
Program on the Teletutoren page
Blog on Teletutoren blog archive
|
Partner P6 LANC
Heike Philp
Conference participants at the LearnTec 2009 exhibition and e-learning conference in Karlsruhe, Germany
Reaches e-Learning experts, distance learning, learning platforms
approx. 80 participants
|
4 |
6 Feb 2009
|
Board meeting
Dia-Logos Conference
Grundtvig partnership meeting
|
Partner P5 ICC
Teachers, teacher trainers, managers,
education policy makers.
Agenda available
24 participants
|
5 |
13 Feb 2009
|
Fachbeirat (Advisory board)
Sprachen und Beruf
Agenda available
|
Partner P5 ICC
Steering committee
Meeting advisory board
|
|
27-29 Feb/1 March 2009 |
Project kick-off in Pisa. A series of workshops and social events were organised locally around the project meetings.
http://www.cli.unipi.it/ricerca/eventi/avalon.pdf
avalon.pdf
|
All project partners except for Partner 7.
Participants from the Associate partner University of Siena, Italy and University of Pisa staff members attended.
25 Participants
|
6 |
26 Mar 2009
|
Discussions with Dean of language department, central Missouri University
|
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University Mats Deutschmann
Potential collaborations around language learning where American students would contribute to European online language learning events in their capacity as native speakers
3 participants
|
7 |
6 Mar 2009
|
Presentation about AVALON
Students presented the AVALON concept from Second Life, which was broadcast into the face-to-face meeting.
|
Partner 1 UoM Gary Motteram
Manchester University President and the staff of the School of Education
60 participants
|
8 |
27-28 Mar 2009
|
Introduction to Second Life and the Avalon project
ICC 16th Annual Conference, Creativity and Innovation, in Florence, Italy, in co-operation with CLIDA
http://www.icc-languages.eu/florence_2009.php
|
Partner 8 CLI/University of Pisa Luisa Panichi with partner 5 ICC Christel Schneider
ICC member organisations, teacher trainers, managers, education policy makers and publishers.
Meeting agenda available
|
9 |
Mar 2009 |
ICC Conference brochure
Brochure available
|
Partner P5 ICC
Teachers, teacher trainers, managers, education policy makers
|
10 |
16 April 2009
|
Workshop on SL based on the Avalon framework at the Swedish national congress for English teachers.
http://www.mah.se/pages/155719/just%20the%20programme.pdf?epslanguage=sv
|
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University Mats Deutschmann
50 participants
|
11
|
23 April 2009
|
Workshop presented at the Eurocall Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) Special Interest Group event. “Researching Computer Mediated Communication in Foreign Language Education: Issues and Methods”, Unversidad de León, Spain, 23-25 April”
See Timetable:
http://www3.unileon.es/personal/wwdfmrod/cmc2009/programme.html
http://www.slideshare.net/DrDojan/presentation-leon
|
Partner 8 CLI/ University of Pisa Luisa Panichi with partner 10 Mid Sweden University Mats Deutschmann
40 participants
Also informal dissemination
|
12 |
23-24 April 2009 |
AVALON project presentation at e-Learning Conference Plymouth
Simulcast
Presentation was held on EduNation in the in-world which was screened at the conference
Plymouth e-Learning Conference
Boundary Changes: Redefining Learning Spaces
Program at the e-Learning conference in Plymouth
|
Partner 6 LANC
Heike Philp
Participants are "academics and professional practitioners from all sectors of education and training, including corporate, health and military training." of a generic nature (not language specific)
10 participants in-world
approx 25 local participants at e-learning conference in Plymouth
|
13 |
1 May 2009 |
APPI Lisbon 2009
Serious learning through gaming - Language learning quests in Teen Second Life
http://www.theswanstation.com/APPI_09.html
AVALON project mentioned at end of presentation and during Q&A
|
Partner 7 BritCoun
Joe Pereira
20 participants
|
14 |
8-9 May 2009 |
SLanguages 2009
Second Life only conference on Edunation in Second Life
Two presentations of the AVALON project at the SLanguages 2009 conference (http://www.slanguages.net/program.php) in Second Life.
We presented twice and one of the attendees made a video recording of the presentation and wrote a blog post about it:
http://www.sarasuati.com/slang2009-the-avalon-project-video-conference/
Slanguages Archive features three videos
1) YouTube video AVALON Learning Ignite presentation 356 views
2) Slidecast on slideshare AVALON project presentation 456 views
3) LANCELOT School on Blip.tv channel 55 views
4) Sarasutis Blip.tv channel ? views
|
Partners 10 Mid Sweden University Mats Deutschmann with P7 BritCoun, P1 UoM, P5 Grenzenlos
80 participants
Also informal dissemination
|
15 |
22 May 2009 |
Webheads in Action Online Convergence Conference 2009
AVALON presentation @ WIAOC 2009 Online Conference
Webheads in Action Online Convergence Conference
This conference reaches a worldwide community of language teachers who call themselves webheads and who like to teach languages using technology.
Recordings of the AVALON presentation on the Webheads in Action NING site (107 views)
Recordings on the LANCELOT School YouTube Channel (86 views)
Program at http://wiaoc09.pbworks.com/May22
Pecha Kucha presentation
|
Partners 6 LANC
Heike Philp
c 200 views / participants
|
16 |
18 May 2009 |
Local dissemination at Mid Sweden University
Meeting with university library staff on the use of SL
|
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University Mats Deutschmann
5 participants
|
17 |
3 June 2009 |
Meeting with Patrik Svensson, HUMlab, Umeå university
Meetings with Associate partner about future collaborations and joint seminar events
|
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University Mats Deutschmann
4 participants
|
18 |
4 June 2009 |
Meetings with Dr Mercedes Rico Garcia + other delegates from Universidad deExtremadura (Spain)
The team visited Mid Sweden since I was co-supervising a doctoral student (Paula Da Silva) and the meeting marked the beginning of a collaboration whereby Extremadura’s activities would feed into AvalonThe team visited Mid Sweden since I was co-supervising a doctoral student (Paula Da Silva) and the meeting marked the beginning of a collaboration whereby Extremadura’s activities would feed into Avalon
|
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University Mats Deutschmann
4 participants
|
19 |
15-17 June 2009 |
Sprachen and Beruf Languages Languages and Business
http://www.sprachen-beruf.com/
|
Partner P5 ICC
Managers, directors, stake holders
|
20 |
30 June 2009 |
AVALON Presentation at NECC Unconference (US)
Online Conference simulcasted at the exhibition area of the NECC exhibition
The live online unconference was organized by Steve Hargadon, founder of Classroom 2.0 NING site, a site with 35,204 members mostly school educators.
The 30th NECC (National Educational Computing Conference) is the world's largest conference with 14000 attendees, approx. 1000 presentations and 500 exhibitors.
This is a generic University and School oriented conference. Not language specific.
Recording of the presentation on the LANCELOT School YouTube channel (73 views)
Full Elluminate recordings are available on the Classroom 2.0 LIVE blogs
|
Partner P6 LANC
Heike Philp
|
21 |
9 Sep 2009 |
EuroCall 2009 Conference,
Gandia (Valencia) Spain.
Workshop: “Using Second Life ® for language education: the Avalon project”
http://eurocall.webs.upv.es/eurocall2009/down/programme.pdf
Note that Graham Stanley could not attend and was replaced by Mats Deutschmann
|
Partner 8 --CLI/ University of Pisa Luisa Panichi with partner 10 – Mid Sweden University Mats Deutschmann
20 particpants
|
22 |
9-12 Sep 2009 |
Poster Session
Research and best practice in Second Life
Eurocall 2009 Conference. New Trends in Call: Working together. University of Valencia, Gandía, Spain, 9-12 September 2009
http://eurocall.webs.upv.es/eurocall2009/
|
Partner 8CLI/ University of Pisa with Partner, 10 (Mid Sweden University), 9 (Molde University College), 7 (British Council Spain), 1 (University of Manchester) and 2 (University of Vienna). |
|
17-19
Sep 2009
|
Paper presentation
"Electronic portfolios for Avatars: Language development and digital literacy"
CercleS seminar
The role of the CEFR and the ELP in higher education
University of Padova, Padova, Italy
http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/cmsconv/
|
Partner 8 CLI/University of Pisa - Luisa Panichi and Partner 5 - ICC, Christel Schneider. |
23
|
26 Sep 2009 |
British Council Barcelona Teacher Day Conference
Presentation of Avalon project to Catalan Secondary school teachers
|
Partner 7 BritCoun Graham Stanley
28 participants
|
24 |
30 Sep 2009 |
British Council Barcelona in-house day for Teachers
Presentation of Avalon project to British Council teachers
|
Partner 7 BritCoun Graham Stanley
30 teachers
|
25 |
13 Oct 2009 |
Presentation at the Sorbonne
About on-line learning (via Adobe Connect)
|
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University David Richardson & Bryan Carter
80 participants
|
26 |
14 Oct 2009 |
Seminar with teacher trainees at Mid Sweden University on the use of virtual worlds in language teaching
Local dissemination
|
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University Mats Deutschmann
15 participants
|
27 |
17 Oct 2009 |
Meeting with Humlab Umeå
Discussions related to the joint work with Sami courses under the Avalon framework
|
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University Mats Deutschmann
4 participants
|
28 |
17-19 Sep 2009 |
Electronic Portfolio for Avatars
The role of the Common European Framework of Reference and the European Language Portfolio in higher education, CercleS Seminar, University of Padua, Italy
http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/cmsconv/
|
Partner 8CLI/ University of Pisa with Partner 5 (ICC) |
29 |
21 Oct 2009 |
Presentation of Avalon project to Global Products team - British Council, London, UK |
Partner 7 BritCoun Graham Stanley
20 participants
|
30 |
27 Oct 2009 |
Presentation at e-Meeting for The Graal Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
Via Adobe Connect
15 participants
|
David Richardson
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University David Richardson
|
31 |
6-7 Nov 2009 |
Second Life as a virtual platform for language learning
The International conference on ICI for Language Learning (Pixel), 2nd Edition, , Florence, Italy, 6-7 November, 2009.
http://www.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL2009/
http://www.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL2009/programme.php
http://www.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL2009/conferenceproceedings.php
http://www.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL2009/common/download/Proceedings_pdf/Christel_Schneider,Luisa_Panichi.pdf
|
Partner 8 CLI/University of Pisa with Partner 5 (ICC) Christel Schneider
|
32 |
16 Nov 2009 |
Presentation to a teacher from Lisbon University, Portugal
In Second Life
|
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University David Richardson
1 participant
|
33 |
12-13 Nov 2009 |
1st Virtual Round Table Conference
The 1st Virtual Round Table Conference is a live online conference hosted by LANCELOT School that took place on Nov 12-13, 2009.
AVALON presentation by Gerhilde Meissl-Egghart
Recordings of the British Council Language Quest Show and Tell (first 45min) and of the AVALON presentation and tour of the AVALON Learning Island (last 45min)
Program and recordings are under DAY 1 on the main conference site.
|
Partner 6 LANC
Partner 4 TALK
Partner 7 BritC
Graham Stanley, Gerhilde Meissl-Egghart, Heike Philp and Joe Pereira
20 participants
|
34 |
20-22 Nov 2009 |
BESIG conference in Poznan, Poland
AVALON presentation (45min)
BESIG conference in Poznan, Poland
The Business English Special Interest Group is the small brother of the IATEFL event in the UK. It is focused on business English and sees between 300 and 700 participants every year.
Program on the BESIG conference site
|
Partner 6 LANC Holly Longstroth and Heike Philp
60 participants
|
35 |
23 Nov 2009 |
Lecture at Mid Sweden on the use of SL in language learning
http://www.miun.se/Mittuniversitetet/Nyheter/Aktuellt/Kalendarium/Docentforelasning-Get-virtually-real/
|
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University Mats Deutschmann
30 participants
|
36 |
24 Nov 2009 |
Presentation at NIK/NOKOBIT/NISK 2009,
Trondheim, 23-25 November
http://events.idi.ntnu.no/nik_nokobit09/program.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp5Rvc4xZQQ
|
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University Mats Deutschmann
30 participants
|
37 |
26 Nov 2009 |
Presentation to Nordic Inter-cultural Cooperation Council Meeting (NIC2009), Borås
Via Adobe Connect
|
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University David Richardson
45 participants
|
38 |
27 Nov 2009 |
Presentation to a meeting of the Baltic University Program at the State University of St Petersburg
Via Adobe Connect
|
Partner 10 Mid Sweden University David Richardson
40 participants
|
39 |
30 Nov 2009 |
Presentation to School of Education students and staff following MA TESOL and MA Educational Technology and TESOL
Face-to-face and in Second Life (P9)
|
Partner 1 UoM Susan Brown and Zeynep Onat-Stelma with Partner 9 Judith Molke-Danielsen
10 participants
|
40 |
2-4 Dec 2009 |
Attendance at the Online EDUCAConference Pre-Conference and Main Conference
http://www.online-educa.com/pre_conference.php?id=fd5
PCE Powerpoint
http://www.online-educa.com/programme_detail.php?id=FUT61
3D distance teacher education
|
Partner 1 UoM Gary Motteram
40 participants in each event
|
41 |
6 Dec 2009 |
Interim dissemination in SL from Vienna
http://www.tesol-spain.org/Events/Conv2010/conv2010.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grahamstanley/sets/72157625550688712
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All partners apart from P5
25 participants
|
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